KDE developer onboarding is good now

[Konqi]

I made substantial changes in the KDE Developer Platform documentation over the years. I am effectively its docs maintainer and have the largest number of commits in the repository. This is due in large part because I started contributing to it in 2021, applied as a KDE documentation contractor in late 2023, and started officially working with KDE development onboarding docs in 2024. I’m one of multiple furries contributing to KDE. :3

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/

[rokejulianlockhart]

@Konqi

To this day I think there is only 5 good resources on CMake, to be checked in this specific order:

Anyway, I first touched KXmlGui by making it fully functional and have screenshots, in addition to mentioning actual build instructions. My fix was so effective, in fact, that there were very few changes to this day.

@Herzenschein, the list is absent:

• Official CMake tutorial

• Modern CMake

• Effective CMake (video)

• Post-modern CMake: From 3.0 to 4.0 (video)

• Professional CMake (book)

[Herzenschein]

lol, now that sure is a specific bug, it only happened to that one list.

Thanks to you any readers using the bot thing to read without visiting the website will know about it

[rokejulianlockhart]

@Herzenschein

that sure is a specific bug, it only happened to that one list.

Ha! @Herzenschein, if you can’t see any issue with your markup, I don’t mind filing a bug with the processor. I just have almost no idea what the name of the relevant component is (Hugo?).

[Herzenschein]

@rokejulianlockhart

I just have almost no idea what the name of the relevant component is.

I have no idea, my guess would be RSS Polling - Plugin - Discourse Meta but it’s probably something to ask one of the admins about.

[Luteo427]

It’s time to join the army of furry contributors to KDE…

[Jeff_Dooley]

Thank you for this backstory on the onboarding docs. I had no idea but it’s super-helpful. Thank you

[felagund]

The docs for building plasma with kde-builder are very good indeed!

One thing I struggled with is that not all docs are updated for Plasma 6 and it is not always clear to me whether I am looking at an uptodate docs or something slighly (or very) outdated. Searching for docs through a search engine lands one in various pages :-).

[Herzenschein]

@felagund

One thing I struggled with is that not all docs are updated for Plasma 6 and it is not always clear to me whether I am looking at an uptodate docs or something slighly (or very) outdated.

Right, you’re probably referring to the Plasma widgets tutorial and the Features section, that’s what will be worked this year.

[akselmo]

One of us, one of us…

[whatware]

:3c

thank you lol